FightMilk@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLemmy, how would you feel about a law that bans radio stations from playing commercials with honking/beeping/siren noises in them?message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down13
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareLemmy, how would you feel about a law that bans radio stations from playing commercials with honking/beeping/siren noises in them?FightMilk@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareWillem@kutsuya.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoHere in the Netherlands we already have such law. I can’t imagine how bad commercials can be with it. There is no reason except creating shock of confusion for such sound in a commercial and those things are not something you want in a car.
minus-squarecollegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIn America it’s more likely that we ban the use of radios in cars
minus-squareaverage650@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoIt’s already illegal in the US.
minus-squareaverage650@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agohttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/325 There’s also this: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-2123A1.pdf This is not exactly about imitating police sirens, but the emergency alert system. I can’t speak to how well enforced this is.
Here in the Netherlands we already have such law. I can’t imagine how bad commercials can be with it. There is no reason except creating shock of confusion for such sound in a commercial and those things are not something you want in a car.
In America it’s more likely that we ban the use of radios in cars
It’s already illegal in the US.
Citation needed.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/325
There’s also this:
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-2123A1.pdf
This is not exactly about imitating police sirens, but the emergency alert system.
I can’t speak to how well enforced this is.